See images of the ‘city-killer’ asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth
A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...
Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft
Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into ...
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What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)
This is the last chance we have to observe the asteroid from Gemini before 2028." It might not look like much in this image, but this is the asteroid that has made a major news impact in 2025.
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Space mining company AstroForge identifies asteroid target for Odin launch next month
A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. California-based AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 ...
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What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)
It might not look like much in this image, but this is the asteroid that has made a major news impact in 2025. That's because this space rock, designated asteroid 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-48 chance of ...
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New NASA imagery shows large asteroid that could impact Earth in 2032
The images in the animation were captured by an ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on Christmas Day 2024, when the asteroid had “a close approach with Earth,” becoming bright enough to be ...
New NASA imagery shows large asteroid that could impact Earth in 2032
A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...
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Terrifying animation reveals the projected path of the 'city-destroying' asteroid heading towards Earth - as scientists warn the MOON could also be in the firing line
A terrifying new animation has ... information about the asteroid's orbit. The current estimates for 2024 YR4's orbital path, speed, and size come from hundreds of images taken by powerful ...
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It's a Livin' In the Asteroid Fields of Astronomics
A Big Job for Little Pay, But At Least the Bots Do the Heavy Lifting Astronomics is an asteroid mining adventure where you're trying to earn your way out of the asteroid belt, scavenging ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas ...
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Will an asteroid collide with Earth? How the Webb telescope will track 2024 YR4
The race to understand more about the asteroid that − as of now − has ... 2021 and made a splash seven months later when the first images were released in July 2022. The $10 billion ...
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New NASA imagery shows large asteroid that could impact Earth in 2032
The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 ...